Synopsis : Reboots seem to be the story fad du jour when it comes to comic franchises, and while there have been some reboots of Superman,...

The Cybils Speculative Fiction Bookmark: As a panelist for Cybils YA Speculative Fiction, Round 1, I'm going to be briefly writing up ...

Can you believe it's been TEN years since First Second Books began publishing high-quality graphic novels for kids, teens, and adults?...

Photo courtesy of the author and First Second From the press release: The Children’s Book Council (CBC), Every Child a Reader (ECAR), a...

Summary : Some time ago I reviewed the first collected volume of the new (and surprisingly awesome) Ms. Marvel comic, starring the reboot...

Full disclosure: I've served any number of times with Gwenda Bond on Cybils panels and consider her a sharp cookie as well as a friend. ...

Okay, so Rapunzel might be a leeetle over-honest -- I mean, come on, if you'd lived by yourself in a tower and had people climbing your...

Children's Book Week was just last week, and thanks to First Second we're still celebrating--throughout April and May, MacTeenBooks...

Yep, that's what you get from me today, because it is the last week of school and my upcoming weekend will be filled with GRADING FUN as...

Click to embiggen. Happy Weekend! Enjoy The Forever Girls , a little tale by graphic novelist and cartoonist (& Melissa Wiley's ...

It's a truth acknowledged universally &tc. that I am not the artsy person in this blogging duo. A.F. - she draws, she's Cybil...

Summary : I was excited, intrigued, and a little wary when I heard that the new reboot of Ms. Marvel was going to be a Pakistani-American,...

Just a quick post today--but I wanted to make sure you all knew that cartoonist/graphic novelist Alison Bechdel has won one of those nifty M...

I haven't done a links roundup in a while. That's mainly because I'm so far behind on my e-newsletters and other online read...

Let me just start by asking you this: How much more awesome could it get than having the privilege of hosting a guest post by George O...

Today we're happy to host a guest post by Tony Cliff, author of Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant , recently released by First S...

It's a busy month for Tanita and I, this merry month of May, so we've decided to feature a couple of guest posts and interviews over...

Just a catchall post of links for this damp, grey Monday, as I catch up on blogging and house cleaning and other small projects (thus succes...